Before Columbus - Part One: First Contact

Historical Blindness

Nathaniel Lloyd

Politics, News, Religion & Spirituality, History, Religion

4 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In the first of a 2-part series, I look at other claims of Pre-Columbian Trans-Oceanic Contact that precede the Norse claim as potentially the first culture to make transoceanic contact with the indigenous peoples of the Americas, examining diffusionist claims of African, Roman, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, and Polynesian contact. Visit factormeals.com/blind50 and use code blind50 to get 50% off! Direct all advertising inquiries to [email protected]. Visit www.airwavemedia.com to find other high-quality podcasts! Find a transcript of this episode with source citations and related imagery at www.historicalblindness.com sometime before the release of the next episode. Pledge support on Patreon to get an ad-free feed with exclusive episodes! Check out my novel, Manuscript Found! And check out the show merch, which make perfect gifts! Further support the show by giving a one-time gift at paypal.me/NathanLeviLloyd or finding me on Venmo at @HistoricalBlindness. Some music on this episode was licensed under a Blue Dot Sessions blanket license at the time of this episodes publication. Tracks include "Cicle Deserrat," "The Gran Dias," "Curio," "Lick Stick," "Maisie Dreamer," "Palms Down" "Black Ballots," "Tarte Tatin," "Bauxite," "Winter in Black," and "Invernen." Other music, including "Remedy for Melancholy" and "daedalus" is by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:23.1	Be sure to check it out. Though school children used to be taught that Christopher Columbus had to convince the Catholic
1:43.3	monarchs of Spain that the Earth is actually
1:46.0	round and not flat, and thus could be circumnavigated by a westward voyage across the Atlantic.
1:52.0	We know this to be a myth. In fact, it had been known since antiquity that the Earth is spherical,
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